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UTMB scientists genetically engineered world’s first Zika virus infectious cDNA clone

The Zika virus infectious clone is key to rapid vaccine development and unraveling the  mysteries…

Migratory Shorebirds: Where do they come from and what do they want?

David Newstead, Speaker at Houston Audubon May Meeting Over the last decade, the Coastal Bird…

Developing Tools to Screen Traumatic Brain Injury Therapies

Kleberg Foundation Grant to UH Professor Funds TBI Model By Lisa Merkl Each year, an…

PIONEERING INSIGHTS INTO CANCER METASTASIS

Consider this scenario: A man has surgery to remove a tumor in his kidney. No…

KLEBERG FOUNDATION AWARDS MAJOR GRANT TO TEACH FOR AMERICA

McALLEN, Texas—The Robert J. Kleberg, Jr. and Helen C. Kleberg Foundation announced plans to invest…

Setting Cancer Cells on the Right Path: A New Leukemia Drug Shows Growing Promise

By Eva Kiesler on Friday, January 30, 2015 Epigenetics— the study of biochemical changes that influence…

Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development awarded grant to develop therapeutic vaccine for chagas disease

HOUSTON — The Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development at the National School of…

UT Health Science Center determines structure of toxin in respiratory infections

Discovery could spur drug and vaccine development in asthma, other diseases Contact: Will Sansom, (210)…

UTSA Receives More Than $5 Million in Gift Commitments to Advance Second Phase of Capital Campaign

SAN ANTONIO – The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) has received nearly $5.1…